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Puerto Rico is weighing a measure that some lawmakers feel may be the solution to childhood obesity – a fat fine. The bill, introduced...
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In recent months, immigration, race and ethnicity have dominated headlines. One reason is because with each passing year, more and more people in...
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Solar and battery energy project being installed at San Juan’s children’s hospital photo: Tesla Tesla is apparently significantly ramping up its effort to help...
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photo: peru21.pe Erika Sánchez began to have suicidal thoughts when she was 13. Sánchez, the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago, had always been...
CT Affordable Care Act
Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com As the second annual open enrollment for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act nears its Feb. 15 deadline, organizations...
Health
The findings show that cultural values may help Hispanic immigrants maintain positive parenting practices and parent-child relationships, despite, on average, greater financial pressures...
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Connecticut’s diabetes rate ranks lower than the national average, but Hispanics and African-Americans are more than twice as likely to have the disease compared...
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Doug Maine CTLatinoNews Hispanic children from low-income families have the highest use rate for dental services – 76 percent – in the state’s HUSKY A...
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Hispanics are nearly twice as likely as non-Hispanic to get diabetes, the perception of the metabolic disease, within the community, varies a great deal,...
Health
Without treatment to replace her failing kidneys, Olga knows she will die. The 37-year-old single mother is desperate to get a transplant...
Health
State health inspectors visiting Stamford Hospital in late 2012 turned up several infection-control violations, including the improper drying and storage of endoscopes, instruments...
Health
Bill Sarno CTLatinoNews.com As it enters its 45th year of treating substance abuse, Hartford-based Youth Challenge of Connecticut, a faith-based nonprofit treatment facility...
Health
Latino health is affected by factors like food, genetics and lifestyle. Unfortunately, the combination of traditional cultural dishes found at home and...
Arts and Culture
HARTFORD—TheaterWorks Hartford’s annual Christmas On The Rocks returns for its 11th anniversary this winter with a brand new story that expands this offbeat collection...
Community
When Ocean Medina, 11, and Joe DeLutrie, 52, first met through the Big Brothers Big Sisters of CT mentorship program, they bonded fairly quickly....